Vision, even for a dragon, is woefully unreliable. What you can see with great clarity may not be real; what you cannot see may be the ultimate reality.

The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.

Every piece of the universe, even the tiniest little snow crystal, matters somehow. I have a place in the pattern, and so do you. Thinking of you this holiday season!

Everything can be improved.

The surest sign that God is alive in you is joy.

The minute you walk outside of your church on Sunday you're in mission territory.

Love is not a sentiment or feeling. Love is actively willing the good of the other.

The cross is Jesus going into the very lair of death. He goes to meet head-on that which frightens us the most. And what does He do? He battles it. He engages it. And finally he conquers it.

Begin with the beautiful, which leads you to the good, which leads you to the truth.

Turn your car into a monastery.

The ego-drama is nothing compared with the theo-drama. The fun begins when we let God write our stories.

A code is like love, it has created with clear intentions at the beginning, but it can get complicated.

There are great lessons to be learn’t in every trail. Look for the gold in every encounter.

You can have a healthy fossil-fuel balance sheet, or a relatively healthy planet

I start from scratch with each movie; I wipe the slate and I certainly don't rely on some bag of acting tricks I've amassed over the years.

A gentleman should never take his hat off with a flourish.

When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life.

A poem with grandly conceived and executed stanzas, such as one of Keats's odes, should be like an enfilade of rooms in a palace: one proceeds, with eager anticipation, from room to room.

I had a calling to become what I became - I was created to do this.

Put blinders on to those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head.

The movie that made me want to make movies was "Blue Velvet."